On Saturday, June 18 the Screen Nova Scotia Awards will be back in person after two pandemic years of happening online. Guests will pack into Schooner Ballroom at Casino Nova Scotia for a night of celebrating the talent within Nova Scotia’s film, television and animation industries. On May 17, nominees were announced in such longstanding […]
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Gambling with Nova Scotia’s future
1 A WHOLE NEW WORLD “Icome from a family of people that gamble,” John says. “I learned how to play poker from my grandfather when I was like three. I’ve always been kind of attracted to money.” This explains his Bachelor degree in business, his “early” Bitcoin investment and his steady, if unexciting, day job […]
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Lagomorph wins the 2021 Nova Scotia Masterworks Award
That old saying of not judging a book by its cover must’ve been joked about at least once at the Nova Scotia Masterworks judging table, which doled out its 2021 award earlier this week. The winning artwork—a handcrafted book—sports a quiet beauty immediately felt in its pebbled, plain cream cover. Inside, there’s a short story by […]
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Hannah Moscovitch’s big win
The day Hannah Moscovitch wins the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama, Halifax’s most decorated playwright is sipping milky coffee, untying and retying her half-up messy bun while soft light diffuses around her. It’s a serene Wednesday afternoon in her north end home, no champagne popping in sight. “I feel like I paid in pain […]
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What happened at Northwood?
A year ago this Saturday, April 17, three residents of Northwood, the long-term care centre in the heart of Halifax, died of COVID-19. Fifty more would die in the course of the next six, frantic weeks. While COVID raged inside the facility, the north end complex was sealed off from the surrounding community. The virus […]
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ANSMA’d our prayers
Last night, the African Nova Scotian Music Association’s awards highlighted a handful of the ear-exalting excellence that local Black artists put forth in 2020. From the kalimba-soaked single “Outside” by Zamani to Jah’Mila’s reggae resistance song “Chant Their Names” to Keonté Beals’ anthemic track “KING” (from an album of the same name that was so […]
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Speaking for The Coast: Fame for the messenger
People don’t go into journalism to be universally admired—the idea of killing the messenger has apparently been part of pop culture since a Sophocles play in 442BC. But as Facebook and Google tighten their grip on the world’s attention and advertising, and public officials are increasingly emboldened to slander the fourth estate as the enemy […]
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Taste of Nova Scotia is hungry for your nominations
It’s probably obvious to you by now that we’re fans of voting, nominating and giving out awards around here. But today, we’re interrupting our usual Best of Halifax programming to remind you that Taste of Nova Scotia‘s annual celebration of province-wide culinary greatness is looking for your nominations. It’s the 10th year that Taste of […]
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Kudos for The Coast’s awesome writers Lezlie Lowe and Jacob Boon
Nominees for the 2016 Atlantic Journalism Awards were announced today, with a pair of crime-related Coast stories making the list. In Enterprise Reporting: Print, the AJA category for work such as investigative journalism that demonstrates reportorial initiative, our city editor Jacob Boon is nominated. You will probably remember Boon’s article, “Continuity errors,” for breaking the […]
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African Nova Scotia Music Association celebrates Portia White
19th Annual African Nova Scotian Music Awards Show February 25, 7pm Spatz Theatre As African Heritage Month is coming to a close, the African Nova Scotia Music Association (ANSMA) is honouring one of the province’s most iconic musicians. ANSMA’s Annual Music Award Show Celebration—now in its 19th year—is paying tribute to Portia White, who overcame […]
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Before the murder and after, the life of Tyler Richards
In the mural painted in his honour, Tyler Richards looks out over his community with a pensive, protective glare, a basketball clenched between his palms. He can see the Steps—the childhood meeting place where he and his friends would congregate and play, a place Mulgrave Park kids before Richards’ generation and after have used as […]
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Continuity errors
An internal audit by Halifax Regional Police has uncovered the department’s shocking habit of losing track of drugs and money seized as evidence. Conducted last summer and released to The Coast under the Freedom of Information Act, the audit found a nearly 90 percent failure rate within the Criminal Investigation Division (CID) for evidence continuity. […]